{"id":350,"date":"2011-07-04T01:23:45","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T01:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/?p=350"},"modified":"2011-07-04T01:23:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T01:23:45","slug":"its-time-to-bring-his-ashes-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/04\/its-time-to-bring-his-ashes-home\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s time to bring his ashes home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They are right upstairs, with good people- Kate and Jen.\u00a0 They have them next to a Buddha statue.\u00a0 They brought them home from the hospital for me a few weeks after he passed.\u00a0 I have not been able to have them with me.\u00a0 Now I feel this welling up of wanting them here.\u00a0 I will ask for them tomorrow. I will bring his ashes home.\u00a0 It is only symbolic, I know.\u00a0 He is not the ashes.\u00a0 He is so so so much bigger.\u00a0 He is infinite.<\/p>\n<p>But bringing them home here to sit on his altar- is a step in my healing.\u00a0 It says to me- I am accepting. I am surrendered. I am available for more opening.\u00a0 I will cry a river of tears when I carry this wooden box home.\u00a0 I will undoubtedly curl up and wail a thousand cries.\u00a0 And with these tears- come a Surrendered Heart. I have no blocks, no boundaries, no walls.\u00a0 My boy says- you don&#8217;t need them &#8220;where&#8221; I am at, mom. and he wants to bring this &#8220;place&#8221; to me- fully alive in my body,mind and heart.\u00a0 He wants me to experience the Grace of a fully Open Heart.<\/p>\n<p>These ashes will bear witness to my path of opening.\u00a0 These ashes will continue bringing me to my knees.\u00a0 These ashes will point me deeper inside my Silent Witness- the one who sees All and knows with no doubt that THERE IS NO SEPARATION.\u00a0 My boy is here, next to me, in the Vastness of the Space called Unconditional Love.\u00a0\u00a0 I am ready to bring them home, and I am ready to continue on the journey Home, inside the Bliss of Pure Awakened Mind.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin, I love you forever.\u00a0 The forever that has no beginning and no end.\u00a0 The Forever that resides Now and has us always reunited and always connected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are right upstairs, with good people- Kate and Jen.\u00a0 They have them next to a Buddha statue.\u00a0 They brought them home from the hospital for me a few weeks after he passed.\u00a0 I have not been able to have them with me.\u00a0 Now I feel this welling up of wanting them here.\u00a0 I will &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/04\/its-time-to-bring-his-ashes-home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s time to bring his ashes home<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}